Elegant Donkey (Jackass) - Harry Belafonte

I was walking down the road one day

When I pass a horse and a fat donkey

I overheard the donkey say

She was a movin' up in society

Seem she merry common law

To a donkey man but he had no class

She wanted to make a baby but

Not if the father was an ass

The ways of the world are very strange

Laws and pagan never change

The elegant donkey wanted class

That’s why they call she jack-ass

Jack-ass, Jack-ass, Jack-ass

Well it happen in the early Spring

When the circus came she went to see

Got to know an elephant

A little too intimately

Oh the elephant ask please marry me

The donkey agree oh pity she

It’s too late now to change she mind

She’s in society

Well now my friends the baby born

Half donkey, half elephant

And if you see the mother now

She’s only got embarrassment

Say de baby is elite

Not a common ass as it should be

And when it walking down the street

The tail ain’t where it ought to be